Hi, Trent. Doing my very best to follow your model given below in the little white quote box:
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I am looking for responses like: "I use a Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger and a gravity trap pan. I find about an once every five 10 hour days of searching in Colorado."
Besides checking ALL quartz and "pretty rocks" with my Falcon Probe detector for that wonderful ping that means EUREKA!!!!....
...I have 4 answers for you, using your model.
1I use my calculator, my list of gold karatage, my list of items I compiled of what I find gold in and on, and my magnifying loupe to locate and acquire a minimum of 4 cheap ounces a month and usually between 8 and 12, right from my computer in eastern Oregon. My average acquisition cost is
UNDER $20 per troy oz.
2When I find the gold mentioned above from my computer at such cheap prices, I usually also get between 40 and 80 to 120 oz of silver per month for free, because that is usually attached to the gold I acquire or stuck in the bags I purchase which is extra because the sender thinks the amount is too little to mess with. My average
acquisition cost is
UNDER $0 per troy oz , because it is FREE
3I use a couple of standard tools, PLUS a little flip chart I developed so I could tell how much catalytic converter matrix is inside each type of catalytic converter, so that I can recovery Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium, approximately 10 oz of PT, and 5oz of PD and 5oz of RH minimum per month. I buy the used cats from my private route of scrappers each month and keep the mess to a minimum. Oh, and I get to make a couple bucks back on selling the S/S cans the matrix is encased in. My average acquisition cost PER OZ for ALL 3 metals combined is
UNDER $38 per troy oz.
4THEN IN THE SUMMER!!!!....YAY...
I have a very nice claim that I grab a buddy and a #10 shovel, plus 6 - 5gal buckets
and run the ore through my own portable gold trommel shown below. Shoveling
3 hours a day, each, and cleaning up the cons by means of a GOLD MAGIC BLACK SANDS WHEEL once a week, we usually pull 4 oz of gold a week. Then after we wheel the cons left over, we dry them in a steel goldpan. Then we run them through a private design electrostatic gold collector that kinda looks like a desert box but it isn't. Then we use a jeweler's scoop shovel and an artist paint brush to scoop up all the minus 40 and under gold dust. Anything left after that goes through a refining process to capture the rest of the gold. Average cost
UNDER $36 per troy oz. Claim maintenance is $125 --small miner exemption labor filing where we get to exchange labor for the filing fee, plus gasoline to and from, and gasoline for the trommel, plus packing in food costs = $150 TOTAL for the two of us for a week. It's all fines, not a nugget in the lot.
I hope this gives your mind some wings as you sit behind your desk and plot and plan.
My website is:
Megan's Cheap Gold, Plat and Cats MethodsNow, I'll go find my Dixie Doodlebug portable trommel with its fluorescent green solid rubber bike tires pix to add to this reply.
KEEP US POSTED ON HOW YOU do, OK? You can't sit behind that desk forever!!!